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A mock execution is a stratagem in which a victim is deliberately but falsely made to feel that their execution...is imminent or is taking place. It may be staged for an audience or a subject who is made to believe that they are being led to their own execution. This might involve blindfolding the subjects, making them recount last wishes, making them dig their own grave, holding an unloaded gun to their head and pulling the trigger, shooting near (but not at) the victim, or firing blanks

The court also imposed, on humanitarian grounds, as a condition for the execution of the sentence, that which day the hanging takes place had to be unknown in advance to the criminal himself, and this up until the very moment the guards come to take him to be hanged.

Can this real-world sentence be executed.

Please specify if you think this is a paradox.

If not why?

If it is a paradox, how do you propose to solve it?
EB

I note that the sentence does not say that the hanging will kill him only that he be hung.
So shoot him and hang his body.
The criminal is expected to be hung so the shooting will not be known in advance to the prisoner.

The court also imposed, on humanitarian grounds, as a condition for the execution of the sentence, that which day the hanging takes place had to be unknown in advance to the criminal himself, and this up until the very moment the guards come to take him to be hanged.

Can this real-world sentence be executed.

Please specify if you think this is a paradox.

If not why?

If it is a paradox, how do you propose to solve it?
EB

I note that the sentence does not say that the hanging will kill him only that he be hung.
So shoot him and hang his body.
The criminal is expected to be hung so the shooting will not be known in advance to the prisoner.

Good marks for creativity and logic.

Still, this would be inhumane treatment. Shooting may not kill the prisoner either and he will suffer atrocious wounds. You're sadistic.

Second, the shooter will be arrested for causing grievous bodily harm and possibly unwarranted death given that no one was mandated to shoot the prisoner, let alone kill him, as you observed yourself.

And the judge being a judge will pronounce a sentence of death by hanging upon the shooter, under the same requirement that the hanging should come as a surprise.

The court also imposed, on humanitarian grounds, as a condition for the execution of the sentence, that which day the hanging takes place had to be unknown in advance to the criminal himself, and this up until the very moment the guards come to take him to be hanged.

Can this real-world sentence be executed.

Please specify if you think this is a paradox.

If not why?

If it is a paradox, how do you propose to solve it?
EB

I note that the sentence does not say that the hanging will kill him only that he be hung.
So shoot him and hang his body.
The criminal is expected to be hung so the shooting will not be known in advance to the prisoner.

The court also imposed, on humanitarian grounds, as a condition for the execution of the sentence, that which day the hanging takes place had to be unknown in advance to the criminal himself, and this up until the very moment the guards come to take him to be hanged.

Can this real-world sentence be executed.

Please specify if you think this is a paradox.

If not why?

If it is a paradox, how do you propose to solve it?
EB

I note that the sentence does not say that the hanging will kill him only that he be hung.
So shoot him and hang his body.
The criminal is expected to be hung so the shooting will not be known in advance to the prisoner.